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M. LEAVY.

METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR REPRIGBBATING GELLARS AND VAULTS No. 356,254.Patented Jan. 18,1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MATHEW LEAVY, OF NElV YORK, N. Y.

METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR REFRIGERATING CELLARS AND VAULTS.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 356,254, dated January18, 1887. Application filed J'uly18, 1886. Serial No. 201,913. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MATHEW LEAVY, a citizen of the United States,residing in the city and county of New York, and State of New York, haveinvented new and useful Improvements in Method of and MeansforRefrigerating Cellars and Vaults, of which the following is aspecification.

Ordinarily the drip from ice contained in the ice-boxes of bar-rooms andother places escapes by a pipe to the sewer.

The object of my invention is to utilize this waste-drip for the purposeof cooling cellars or vaults for the storage of wines, ales, beers, andother liquors and materials which should be kept in an atmosphere offrom 60 Fahrenheit and below.

The object of my invention I accomplish by placing at or adjacent to theceiling of a cellar or vault or other place a pan or vessel having itsbottom portion connected by a pipe or pipes with the ice box or boxes inthe bar-room or other place and connecting with such pan above the pointwhere the drip pipe or pipes enter, a coil of pipe traversing a tortuouscourse in the cellar or vault and discharging into the sewer or othersource of escape.

The invention is illustrated by the accompanying drawing, where thefigure is a horizontal sectional View through a cellar or vault under abar-room and partitioned oil as usual for the storage of wines, ales,beers, and other liquors, or other materials.

In order to enable those skilled in the art to make and use myinvention, I will now describe the same in detail, referring to thedrawing, where the'dotted lines, indicated by the numeral 1, representthe bar of a saloon or hotel, and 2 the ice-boxes, all located above thecellar. At or adjacent to the ceiling of the cellar or vault issupported in any suitable manner a pan or vessel, 3, which may be closedor open at the top, and from the iceboxes extend pipes 4, whichcommunicate with the lower portion of the panfor example, about one inchfrom the bottom thereof. To the pan at apoint above that where thedrip-pipes 4 entersay, for example, six inches thereaboveis connectedone end, 5, of a coil of pipe, 6, which traverses'a tortuous coursethrough a part of the cellar or vault or other place and connects at itsother end with a pipe, 7, leading to a sewer or other place. As thedrippipes enter the pan below the point of entrance of the end 5 of thecoil, there is necessarily maintained in the bottom of the pan a body ofwater forming a seal to the drip-pipes and pre Venting sewer and othergases from rising therethrough to the bar-room, and at the same timesuch body of water prevents heat from rising through the pan. The dripfrom the ice-boxes passes by the drip-pipes into the lower portion ofthe pan, and the waste-water rising therein flows into the coil of pipeand traverses the same, finally escaping through the escape-pipe 7 Bythus utilizing the waste water resulting from the melting of ice in theice-boxes of hotels, saloons, and other places, I am enabled to maintaina cellar or vault or other place having from two to four thousand cubicfeet of space at a temperature of from =to Fahrenheit with the wastewater that melts from four to five hundred pounds of ice for twenty-fourhours. The cellar or vault might be in the form of a large storage-box,and the ice-boxes can be in places other than bar-rooms.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim is 1. The method hereindescribed of utilizing the drip from an ice box or boxes in a barroom orother place, which consists in carrying the drip-water to a receivingpan or vessel .located in a cellar or vault or other place and causingthe water to flow from such pan through a pipe traversing a tortuouscourse in the cellar or vault or other place, and discharging the watertherefrom into a sewer or other place of escape, substantially asdescribed.

2. The combination, with the ice-box of a bar-room or other place, of apan or vessel located in a cellar or vault, a pipe leading from theice-box to said pan, and a pipe lead ing from the box and traversing atortuous course in the cellar or vault or other place, substantially asand for the purpose described.

3. The combination,with theice-box of abarroom or other place, of a panor vessel located in a cellar or vault or other place, a drip-pipeleading from the ice-box to the lower portion of the pan, and a pipeleading from the pan to a point abovethat where the drip-pipe enters,and traversing a tortuous course through the cellar or vault,substantially as. described. Intestimony whereof I affix my signature inpresence of two witnesses.

- MATHEW LEAVY. Witnesses:

FRAS MoLoUGHLIN, P. O. DOOLEY.

